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Benchmarking Jordanian cities: A report on urban transportation and accessibility

Project Active from to Sustainable Growth and Cities

This project evaluates transportation and accessibility performance in Jordanian cities and benchmarks this against peer cities worldwide, aiming to develop a methodology that could be replicated for other countries in the future.

Researchers

Victor Couture

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Prottoy Akbar

Assistant Professor in Economics of Transportation, Aalto University

Adam Storeygard

Professor of Economics, Tufts University

Bernardo Barboza Ribeiro

PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia

Gilles Duranton

Professor of Real Estate, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Project outputs

Report cover page

Benchmarking Jordanian cities: A report on urban transportation and accessibility

Gilles Duranton, Adam Storeygard, Victor Couture, Prottoy Akbar, Bernardo Barboza Ribeiro
Policy brief

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